The objective of this paper is to analyse the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal analysis in the European Union, EUROMOD, is used to study the age incidence of government taxes and transfers in 2001 in 15 EU countries.
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Paper provided by EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research in its series EUROMOD Working Papers with number
EM4/05.
Length: Date of creation: 01 Mar 2005 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:ese:emodwp:em4/05
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Matsaganis M & O'donoghue C & Levy H & Coromaldi M & Mercader-prats M & Farinha rodrigues C & Toso S & Tsakloglou P, 2004.
"Child Poverty And Family Transfers In Southern Europe,"
EUROMOD Working Papers
EM2/04, EUROMOD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research.
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Matsaganis, Manos & Levy, Horacio & Mercader-Prats, Magda & Toso, Stefano & O’Donoghue, Cathal & Coromaldi, Manuela & Rodrigues, Carlos Farinha & Tsakloglou, Panos, 2005.
"Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe,"
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1509, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
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